GDC Poker Tournament Raises $24k For Charity
The official 2007 Game Developers Conference poker tournament has raised almost $24,000 for the Starlight Starbright Foundation, according to a statement from organizers the ISM Agency, with Midway’s Lee Jacobson winning the top prize. 120 players from a broad spectrum of companies in the videogame industry attended the tournament, held on Tuesday, March 6th during the Game Developers …
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Poker terminology:
- MILES OF BAD ROAD - Three of a kind. Prefixed with a number, 3*<N>, to indicate 3 <N>s. Thus "24 miles of bad road" is 3 eights, etc. (This obviously doesn't work for face cards.)
- EDGE - An advantage over an opponent, either specific or subjective.
- CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
- TAP - In no-limit games, to wager all of one's money in one bet.
- THIRD STREET - In Stud, the third card dealt to each player.
- BAD GAME - Any game in which you figure to be the loser, because the other players are better than you.
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